Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already solidly entrenched at Trail, British Columbia, where heavy water for Canadian and U.S. atomic plants is produced, has long been Canada's most slavish Communist union. Harvey Murphy, the union's boss in British Columbia, is an avowed Communist who was trained at Moscow's Lenin Institute...
...Lenin had his Leningrad and Stalin his Stalingrad. Last week Karl Marx got his grad, with a German accent. To celebrate the 135th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, East Germany's Red rulers bestowed a dubious blessing on the smoke-begrimed industrial city of Chemnitz (pop. 550,-ooo), admitting as they did so that there was "great opposition." Henceforth, 800-year-old Chemnitz would be known as Karl-Marx-Stadt...
This was not all. Famed Leipzig University (founded 1409) was rechristened Karl Marx University, and the Order of Karl Marx was established as the highest East German decoration (paralleling Russia's Order of Lenin...
...arrived in Moscow's Red Square. He came not astride the usual cavalry charger, but perched on the back seat of a dove-hued ZIS sports car. After briefly touring the crack units up for review, he joined Georgy Malenkov and the eight other Presidium members atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb. As 150 massed bugles unloosed a mighty blast, he advanced to the microphones and began the traditional address on Soviet Russia's 36th...
...property," "windows and doors that have fallen to pieces," "bedbugs breeding in our hotels." Then Pravda joined in with a story of "connivance" and "protectionism" in the Georgian party cadres; it charged last June that Georgia's Communist leaders did not know the names of the Marx and Lenin classics, never read the papers, and could not name a single book by a Soviet author...